Replace old Comtors

[MfgEngDave]

I am an entry level manufacturing engineer and have not been in industry long enough to know all my options for measuring tools. Right now we have a range of these from .4375-4.125 over 50 gages. If you dont know a what a comtor is check picture... They are basicly a plug that expands that hooks up to an amplifier that tells you how far out your bore is. I would like to replace them with less tools. Our company manufactures drilling rigs and currently we make about 3-4 rigs a month so we are not high production. What kind of tool would be simular to the comtors yet bring my company into the 21st century? Is there a better tool for the job of measuring honed holes?Any ideas, questions, comments, concerns?

 

[MintJulep]

Is there a particular problem with the existing gages that you're trying to solve, or do you just not like them because they're old?

A Google search for "bore gage" will show you that the technology for measuring the diameter of a hole hasn't changed much, other than you might get a digital read out instead of a dial.

 

[MfgEngDave]

It is more of a calibration problem, they have too long of a lead time and there are so many of them where another tool can do the same job thus costing less for calibration per cycle. I have come up with a solution, I got together with the shop leader and asked him to tell me what ones had to stay. Although everyone else in the shop has told me no one uses them, I have to humor the shop lead or he will cry. It is the typical cancerous employee that likes to stonewall you as much as possible.